Formatting Output of Shell command

[Trancemission]

Hi all,

I am now starting to want to execute shell commands (Ping nsloookup etc) within my PHP scripts.

My _problem_ is the default output is not formatted in anyway. No line breaks etc..

I am not %100 sure on what format my output will be so having trouble trying to format it [did that make sense ?]

Has anybody got some tips for the popular commands? [ping, tracert]. My text formatting is limited anyways so I am having difficultly from the start.

I have googled for some demo code but I seem to be getting nowhere, maybe I am having one of thise days.

Many Thanks Trancemission
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If it's logical, it'll work!

 

[sleipnir214]

These functions do return output that is (somewhat) formatted. But if you output it to an HTML page, your browser ignores the newlines.

Are you sending your output to the browser inside <pre>...</pre> tags?

Even without the <pre> tags, if you perform a &quot;view source&quot; in your browser, you should then see the newlines. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!